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Spruce Up Your Kitchen with These Great Tips!

The kitchen may be the heart of your Ventura County home. It is a meeting place, a place where you put your calendars and children’s art work. A place where you make delicious happen and feed your family from. It is definitely a highly trafficked area and for this reason, you want it to stay timeless. Trendy kitchen looks can often end up being a mistake down the road. Especially when you realize you are no longer into that look but you had at one time spent countless hours and money to remodel it. Have a kitchen you will always love with these easy tips.

Make it universal. Your kitchen needs to be user-friendly: accessible, organized, and adaptable. A great example of this is putting in a wall oven and cooktop instead of having a range oven which requires bending over. Another good addition to the kitchen is to make pull out shelves from your existing cabinets. Designs like these are universal because they can suit the needs of most.

Make it great- make it white. A white kitchen is timeless. It never goes out of style or gets old. It is bright, airy, open, and classic. Keep white as the foundation to the color scheme and you will be happy as long as you live there. It will also make the house more buyer-friendly if you go to sell it.

When choosing a backsplash, go with the classic subway tile. It is and has been a very popular tile. However, it is also a successful backsplash. Ideal for maintaining its quality, this tile will last forever. It is easy to clean, goes with everything, and does a great job of guarding against moisture.

Keep it open. Lastly, it is important to remember how important your kitchen is. It attracts the whole family and for this reason, keeping the kitchen in an open floor plan is ideal. If you are doing some remodeling, allow for clearances.

St Patrick’s Day Celebration in Ventura!

This Saturday March 11, be a part of a Ventura County favorite event…..the St Patrick’s Day Parade. Every year, for 28 years and counting, Ventura has celebrated St Patty’s Day with a huge parade and it is a pretty big deal here. If you love to celebrate and want to be a part of the fun, come on out at 10am. Wear your green, bring your Irish spirit, and just have a big green blast!

With over 50 sponsors and up to 100 entries, the parade is set to be packed full of marchers and floats. Enjoy the sounds of authentic bagpipes playing, live entertainment, local mascots, Irish dancers, and marching bands. The Grand Marshal this year is professional surfer Mary Osbourne who will ride on a float with her surfing pup Haole. The parade starts on East Main Street in Downtown Ventura and continues on down the road. The parade ends at the corner of North Ann Street and East Main Street.

Spend the Day Downtown

After the parade, spend the afternoon hanging out in Downtown Ventura where you can enjoy delicious eats, shopping, and other entertainment. There are dozens of restaurants downtown, packed full of variety. Any type of food you are looking for can be found and St Patrick’s Day parade specials at some. Downtown also houses the Majestic Ventura Theatre and tons of shops. From thrift stores to jewelry, books, boutiques, salons, and clothing stores, downtown has enough to keep you covered. So, hang out, shop, eat, relax and enjoy your Saturday here in Downtown Ventura!